Florida Panhandle braces for Michael, now a Category 4 storm
Rick Scott warned it was a "monstrous hurricane", and his Democratic opponent for the Senate, Sen. "The time to prepare is now". Anxious meteorologists said it had the potential of becoming one of the worst storms in the history of Florida's Panhandle.

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Central Florida is not now in the cone of uncertainty as the Panhandle will apparently get the major impacts from the storm. Heavy rain at the weekend caused 13 deaths in Central America after Michael formed off the coast of northern Honduras.

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He's not - we know Eli's not running it. "He is everything that is advertised, and we need him to be him", said Newton. He tried to make a last-second block on the Carolina gunner at the Giants' two-yard line on a second-quarter punt.

The bids for the $10 billion Department of Defense cloud computing contract are due by the end of the week, and Microsoft laid out its case for that business Tuesday in a blog post that highlighted its ability to secure the most sensitive government applications.

With Google out of the running, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle look like the front-runners for JEDI. According to a noted United States newspaper, Pichai met important people from the office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Defense Department directorate which oversees the artificial intelligence drone system called Project Maven. Earlier this year, Defence One reported that Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai were instrumental in sparking the Pentagon's interest in cloud computing, though the company had only quietly pursued a contract amid fears of a strong reaction from rank and file staffers. Some Google employees reportedly quit over the company's work on Project Maven, which is a drone initiative from the U.S. government and Google employees believed that the project end up weaponizing the AI research.

The JEDI cloud contract would potentially have a much broader exposure to the Pentagon's advanced weapons systems. Google decided not to renew its work for Project Maven - which uses machine learning to analyze drone footage - after over 3,000 employees signed an open letter opposing building what they called "warfare technology".

However, the firm does leave space for potential government collaboration stating that Google "will continue our work with governments and the military in many other areas". As only one company will be awarded the contract, Amazon is seen as the frontrunner. A dozen employees also resigned in protest.

Google's leadership and employees have been at odds over USA government contracts.

That the Pentagon could trust housing its digital data with Google would have been helpful to its marketing efforts with large companies.